noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crime carries a penalty
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Murder carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison.
a crime carries a sentence (= that is the punishment for that crime )
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Rape should carry an automatic life sentence.
a crime drama (= about a crime or crimes )
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'American Gangster' is a crime drama set in 1970s New York.
a crime wave (= a sudden increase in crime )
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The city is experiencing a crime wave.
a news/crime/sports reporter
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He started as a news reporter on Radio 1.
a serious crime/offence
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Kidnapping is a serious crime.
a violent crime
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He has a number of convictions for violent crime.
a war crime (= a cruel act in a war which is against international law )
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They will be charged with war crimes.
alleged offence/crime/incident etc
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their alleged involvement in international terrorism
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The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York.
car crime British English
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Car crime in the area has risen rapidly.
combat inflation/crime/racism etc
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To combat inflation, the government raised interest rates.
commit a crime/offence
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People who commit crimes end up in jail.
compound a crime/an offence etc
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He compounded the offence by calling his opponents liars.
crime wave
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More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.
crime/accident/fire etc prevention
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Effective crime prevention must be our main goal.
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a fire prevention officer
crime/drug etc kingpin
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a mafia kingpin
crime/economic/unemployment etc statistics
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The economic statistics tell a grim story.
cut crime
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Cameras have helped to cut crime in the town centre.
despicable crime
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a despicable crime
gang crime (= crime committed by gangs )
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The initiative aims to cut gang crime in Los Angeles.
hate crime
heinous crime
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a heinous crime
knife crime (= crimes in which people are attacked with knives )
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Knife crime is on the increase.
organized crime
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Organized crime is involved in drug trafficking.
soft on crime
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No politician wants to seem soft on crime .
solve a crime/case
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The crime was never solved.
street crime/violence (= when people are attacked in the street )
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Young men are most likely to be victims of street crime.
tackle crime
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The police set up a special task force to tackle street crime in the capital.
the crime rate
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Our crime rate is one of the lowest in the country.
the punishment should fit the crime (= it should be appropriate )
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The public believe that the punishment should fit the crime.
turn to drink/crime/drugs etc
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addicts who turn to crime to finance their habit
war crime
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He was put on trial for war crimes.
war crimes tribunal (= court judging war crimes )
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an international war crimes tribunal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
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Thus, such crimes as embezzlement and other examples of employee theft will not be included in this discussion of corporate crime.
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The practice fosters corporate crime , and the governing ethic-that public service ought not be parlayed into private profitis often eclipsed.
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That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.
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But when bills are introduced in Congress to help curb the epidemic of corporate crime , there is an eerie silence.
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The evidence is, in the case of corporate crime , that nothing much happens by way of public scandal and social ruin.
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Before proceeding to estimate the costs of corporate crime , one last distinction needs to be made.
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Indifference rather than intention may be the cause of greater human suffering, particularly with regard to corporate crime .
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Below we will concentrate on an examination of corporate , business crime , the law-breaking of businesses and corporations.
heinous
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The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special, draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime .
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We not only face the heinous crimes dead on, we face our fellow viewers.
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For Mankins, seeing Harris die was simple retribution for a heinous crime .
high
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Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police.
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His ruling may have been an abomination, but it was neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor.
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A succession of sensational crimes has capped a 23-year high in serious crimes.
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Studies show a disproportionately high amount of crime attributable to kids born after long, difficult labors with forceps deliveries.
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It is no use the Home Secretary saying that the high crime rate is due to other factors.
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Starring newcomer Johnny Depp, it was about four young cops who battled high school crime .
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When the economy is bad and unemployment high , crime is rife.
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Not a necessary social misdemeanor, as most bootlegging was contemporaneously regarded, but a high crime in any age.
juvenile
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Mr Clarke also stressed the role of schools in combating juvenile crime and demanded more effective treatment of disruptive pupils.
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Governor Bush has made his mark building prisons, toughening laws on juvenile crime and calling for lower property taxes.
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I emphasise that juvenile crime is not the same as adult crime.
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The breakdown of community has brought far more problems than personal malaise, of course. Juvenile crime is up.
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Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values.
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Between 1990 and 1994, there was a 57 percent increase in juvenile violent crime arrests.
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Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
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By comparison, Sanders said juvenile crime has been up significantly in many other big cities.
only
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This is the only crime for which the judges concede there is sufficient evidence.
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Once upon a time the only crime in this neck of the woods was domestic.
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Mr Clinton's only crime so far is to have been accused by an ageing cabaret artiste of infidelity.
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Now he was dead, brutally murdered, and Corbett knew his only crime was that some one had watched them talk.
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Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment.
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Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views.
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Street robbery was not the only crime to be viewed leniently in the interwar years.
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In that respect, Johnson's only crime was naïvety.
petty
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As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
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Economic deprivation has increased both petty and violent crimes , turning some cities into murder capitals.
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He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
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Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes .
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The place was suffused with struggle and resentment and frustration. Petty crime was commonplace.
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How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime ?
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If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
recorded
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Yet recorded crime fell by one-third despite increased willingness among the police and public to institute prosecutions.
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The statistics show that recorded crime is predominantly working-class.
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Firstly, improved police efficiency will affect the rate of recorded crime .
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Thus recorded crime can only be seen as an indication of criminal activity.
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Changes in either or both will produce changes in recorded crime trends.
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But this can not be taken as carteblanche for assuming that long-term recorded crime trends correspond to victimization.
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More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
rising
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All those factors are linked to rising crime rates.
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Viktor Barannikov gave an old-style speech warning of the threat of foreign intelligence services and rising crime .
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He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country.
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Voice over At Thames Valley police headquarters today rising crime statistics were on the agenda of a meeting of the police authority.
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The insurance industry is also very concerned about rising car crime .
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Read in studio Police have launched a new initiative to tackle a rising wave of crime .
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It's no good just bleating on about the rising tide of crime to get money out of the government.
serious
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Petty crime was commonplace. Serious crime was the stuff of stairhead gossip.
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Although the Navy had substantial evidence of several serious crimes , there was never a trial for any of them.
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Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
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The second man faces charges for being an accomplice to a serious crime .
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As we saw in Chapter 1, women commit fewer crimes , less serious crimes and do less often.
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Consider the following:-Statistically, only a small percentage of people become victims of a serious crime .
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New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes .
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However the failure of some one to go to mass is considered to be a serious crime .
soft
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On Saturday, Dole piled on, using Napolitano to blast Clinton judicial appointees as soft on crime .
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But criticism of the Stack nomination is not the same as accusing Clinton of being soft on crime .
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Dole aides believe they can paint the president as soft on crime by hammering his judicial nominees.
tough
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If Feinstein takes on Lungren, she must have a Washington record of being tough on crime .
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Everyone wants to get tough on crime , until the bill comes in.
violent
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Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes .
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It is by now well known that about half of all violent crime is committed by and against blacks.
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There is now much more public demand for support to the victims of violent crime .
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As a police reporter for the Miami Herald, she covered thousands of murders and other violent crimes .
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The state executes drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and those convicted of other violent crimes .
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Between 1990 and 1994, there was a 57 percent increase in juvenile violent crime arrests.
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Overall crime rates fell by 2.7 % in the year to March, but violent crime increased.
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Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
■ NOUN
car
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Higher insurance as car crime rockets.
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By then, car crime had pushed insurance rates up beyond the ozone and way past the stratosphere.
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Two types of car crime offenders concern us.
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Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime.
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And the more car crime there is, the more it costs to insure.
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The police have taken action to combat the wave of car crime .
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More than 1.5 million car crimes were committed last year, one in five by people under 21, a survey found.
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More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
hate
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Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.
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Vista Unified School District trustees became so concerned that they now expel students caught committing hate crimes .
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The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.
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Exactly what makes a hate crime ?
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But Roth said investigations showed few of the reports reflected actual hate crimes .
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On Tuesday, Symington vetoed a bill that would have allowed judges to increase prison sentences for hate crimes .
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Thirty-six states have similar hate-crimes laws, and reports of hate crimes have been on the rise in Arizona, Woods says.
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And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes .
prevention
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Talk about crime and crime prevention .
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Last month, the governor's office announced the county would get $ 10.3 million from a statewide crime prevention act.
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Ten schools from the area took part in the competition which tested knowledge of crime prevention and personal safety.
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But Stevens said the goal should be set higher to give officers more time for crime prevention .
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But some speakers emphasised the importance of crime prevention , community liaison and education.
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I can confirm, however, that on 11 February I shall announce a major campaign - car crime prevention year.
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They offer confidential counselling, basic crime prevention advice and help with practical details like insurance claims.
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So crime prevention should be too.
rate
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All those factors are linked to rising crime rates .
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Truancy rates have dropped 42 percent, and daytime crime rates have dropped 35 percent.
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He failed to make only one comparison - that on crime rates .
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Yet when crime rates rise, the police buy more squad cars.
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Any Government who are seriously concerned about dealing with the escalating crime rate must begin to tackle crime at its roots.
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Warlock has gone so far as to link the rate of out-of-wedlock births to crime rates.
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He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country.
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And the male crime rate during any nine-day period is still higher than the female crime rate during the premenstrual period.
scene
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Unfortunately, there was no solid proof of this beyond his own memory of the previous crime scenes .
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John Night Sky, you must visit a variety of colorful crime scenes , gathering evidence and interviewing suspects and witnesses.
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After the incident, police allegedly allowed hospital officials to clean up the crime scene , destroying any evidence.
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The Bruno Magli shoes linked to the crime scene are a particularly rare and pricey style.
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Of how evidence was moved at the crime scene .
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But sitting through nearly 111 minutes of bloody crime scenes , test-tube shots and gruesome autopsy scenes is just unpleasant and boring.
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Investigators have said the crime scene outside Scuttons' computer store produced little usable evidence.
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Petrocelli also produced 31 photos of Simpson wearing the same style Bruno Magli shoes that left bloody footprints at the crime scene .
statistics
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The best example of this is crime statistics .
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They agree about the seriousness of the crime statistics and the importance of full disclosure.
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Voice over At Thames Valley police headquarters today rising crime statistics were on the agenda of a meeting of the police authority.
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The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.
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It is normal, then, to expect a high representation of black youth in youthful crime statistics .
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They say that crime statistics have fallen among nearly all age groups nationwide.
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If Catholics figure disproportionately in the crime statistics , it is because Protestants are more law-abiding.
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At that meeting on July 10, the board was stunned by an independent audit of four years of crime statistics .
street
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The 1989 Home Office report found that victims of burglary become more fearful of street crime as well.
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Yet, viewing the Situation rationally, there are no old perpetrators of street crimes .
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More police officers visibly going about their business is the most commonly advanced solution to street crime .
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Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime .
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Manchester police have an even simpler explanation for the current rise in street crime .
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From there they go to Madrid and Barcelona, where they are already being blamed for an increase in street crime .
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Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon, street crime does not exist.
tribunal
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The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that.
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Today, that could land you in front of a war crimes tribunal .
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External pressure for an independent, international war crimes tribunal has been rebuffed.
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Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal .
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If it ever comes to a war crimes tribunal for him, our town can provide a few witnesses for the prosecution.
victim
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At a ceremony at the Capitol to honor crime victims , Gov.
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Officials were required to obtain such a statement under a federal program for crime victims .
war
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It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group.
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Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
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Others have spoken of war crimes and reparations.
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The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that.
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The new democratic regime has carried out very few investigations into war crimes .
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The conspiracy succeeded in frustrating the United Nations war crimes investigation.
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He is also indicted for war crimes .
wave
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Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently.
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On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave .
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He believes the police are overstretched and moves are urgently needed to tackle Darlington's crime wave .
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He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else.
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A supposed crime wave is sweeping the land.
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The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
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He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave .
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The election-year crime wave is starting in Congress.
youth
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These predictions have yet to materialise, and youth crime rates have been on the decline for several years.
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Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.
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Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime.
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There is a tidal wave of youth crime , and the Government have not begun to answer it.
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They blame youth crime on unemployment and lack of respect for the law.
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Voice over Joyriding is the youth crime of the 90s.
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There is a national crisis of youth crime , but the Bill does not deal with its roots.
■ VERB
accuse
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But it should apply to the accused too until the crime is proved.
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This is not about depriving people accused of crimes of their legitimate rights, including the presumption of innocence.
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Two prisoners are accused of a crime .
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Weeks later, on July 12, 1986, Hall and her then-husband, Peter, were accused of the crime .
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Oh, nobody can accuse me of a crime .
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The subjects of the investigation have not been accused of any crimes .
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He had not been accused of a crime , yet Curtis Brown spent 10 of his last days in a jail cell.
allege
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Military prosecutors have brought charges in only eight alleged crimes against Chechen civilians.
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Ratko Mladic, are brought to justice for alleged war crimes .
charge
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He is charged with 20 war crimes , including genocide and crimes against humanity.
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President Lazaro Cardenas outlawed casinos during his 1934-1940 term in office, charging they promoted crime and vice.
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Their goal is not money, but freedom for a client charged with a crime he did not commit.
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The 17-year-old has not been charged with the crime .
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On the other hand, every person charged with a crime is entitled to testify to his own intentions.
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The farmers, in Buner, an area controlled by the government, were charged with the crime of growing opium.
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She was not under arrest, nor charged with any crime .
combat
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Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime .
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Vasconcellos has long argued that to combat crime , the state should attack the root causes, such as low self-esteem.
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Murders too were more frequent, and in order to combat the rising crime rate parliament introduced a psychological deterrent.
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To combat crime effectively, the police need the full support of the Government and the public.
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Tonight he starts his series of reports with a look at how to combat crime .
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He supported the demand for private farmers to be allowed the use of firearms to combat rising crime against them.
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The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
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The police are increasingly looking to technology - and to information technology in particular - to help them combat increasing crime .
commit
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Women nevertheless do commit crimes and contribute to the tariff of most offence categories.
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Vista Unified School District trustees became so concerned that they now expel students caught committing hate crimes .
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Perpetrators of such crimes are legally permitted shorter prison terms than those who commit similar crimes for other reasons.
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There is a general belief that police commit nearly as many crimes as they prevent or solve.
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Those are the people who commit most car crime and who take away and drive away most motor vehicles.
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Mesa was acquitted a year later of committing a crime on the two women.
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Male speaker A lot of law-abiding youngsters may feel the way to get a holiday is to commit a crime .
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We do not intend to commit any crimes .
convict
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Table 3.1 below shows the ratio of females to males convicted for certain crimes and makes clear the male domination of criminality.
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Years after the bombing, a former Klansman was convicted of the crime .
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The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine.
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Naturalization Service improperly permitted naturalization of immigrants convicted of serious crimes .
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The state executes drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and those convicted of other violent crimes .
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All but one had been convicted for violent crimes .
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Eight or nine men are convicted of crimes for every single female.
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He was convicted of 23 crimes and paroled in 1994.
fight
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And pleas from his predecessor for 50 more officers to fight crime have so far gone unanswered by the Home Office.
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The latest announcement was part of a series of programs the president has embraced since January to fight teen crime .
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It's a return to the old way of the community helping to fight crime .
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Neither are his ideas on fighting crime and courting voters.
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And 51 percent rated it above fighting crime .
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Male speaker It's important to discuss with the public how they can help the police to fight crime .
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He said the plans form part of a nationwide battle Fox has launched to fight corruption and crime .
involve
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Police work is only marginally involved in crime .
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Of necessity, some become involved in organized crime to survive.
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They are alleged to have dealt in drugs in the Milton Keynes and Aylesbury areas and were involved in car crime .
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Several Chinatown leaders have denied the Hip Sing is involved in crime .
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The feature-length pilot involved a number of crimes , strung like colourful washing on a line.
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Traces of more than 37, 000 guns from those cities show that Ring of Fire guns were often involved in crime .
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Most often they are involved in crimes against property - shop-lifting, burglary, vandalism.
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The program, popular in many departments, involves working to stop crime at its roots.
organize
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And war must be waged on organized crime .
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No, the smugglers were mostly from organized crime cartels based in Bombay.
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Of necessity, some become involved in organized crime to survive.
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The old joke went: Q.. What do they call organized crime in Oklahoma?
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The property claim signals prosecutors' intention to dismantle what they consider an organized crime syndicate.
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And I was thinking it was organized crime .
reduce
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His immediate focus is on eliminating high-level corruption and reducing violent crime .
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He noted that New York City had crime problems and that officials there successfully reduced crime without federal intervention.
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A little religion is thought, furthermore, to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society.
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A side benefit, according to the Dallas Police Force: reduced crime rates.
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The exact relationship between these objectives and reducing crime will depend on the specification of the programme and on the individual participant.
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Many people also stressed the need for increasing job opportunities and reducing crime in their neighborhoods.
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If in his new post as security overseer he can reduce crime , well and good.
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It is doubtful that such a new constitutional protection would do much to reduce crime .
report
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The recorded figures exaggerate the increase in victimization which is occurring, mainly because of a greater public propensity to report certain crimes .
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Only one in 10 rape victims reports the crime to authorities, he noted.
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It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes .
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The biggest criticism was leveled against transit administrators for not following law enforcement standards for reporting crime .
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You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime .
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And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes .
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So do not lose any more time in reporting this crime .
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The reported incidence of this crime rose 28. 6 percent between 1974 and 1983, more than any other major offense.
rise
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New Right philosophies, as applied in Britain, also exploited rising popular anxieties about crime and delinquency.
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Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
solve
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Will Robin solve the fiendish crimes ?
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The two casts of characters, although ostensibly cooperating to solve a crime of mutual interest, detest each other.
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The role of the press is rarely condemnatory of the police and usually supportive of the official efforts to solve crime .
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Koch decides once again to solve the crime .
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Besides, he reasoned, he might even get closer to solving the crime this way.
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He made no headway, came not one step closer to solving the crime .
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Sometimes they are keen to have media help in solving a crime , other times they are more reluctant.
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He has vowed to solve the crime almost as often as he has vowed to resume the life he used to live.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
capital offence/crime
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It is capital crime, and a black disgrace to the races of civilized mankind.
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Loss of privileges in peacetime; in war, a capital offence.
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New capital crimes would include the use of firearms; hostage-taking; torture; sale of drugs to minors and racketeering.
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No government has ever made abortion a capital crime or executed either a pregnant woman or an abortionist for murder.
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The word from Lilongwe now is that Chihana will be charged with sedition, a capital offence.
catalogue of mistakes/crimes/cruelty etc
copycat crime/attack etc
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However, 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes.
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What about fingerprints, copycat crimes and serial murders?
crime-buster/budget-buster/sanctions-buster etc
crime-busting/union-busting/budget-busting etc
partners in crime
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Imagine two criminals, partners in crime, who are arrested and placed in separate cells with no means of communication.
petty crime
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As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
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He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
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How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime?
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If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
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Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.
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Stretched to the limit ... police chief says petty crime is going unchecked.
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There's petty crime and crime on a grand scale, well organised.
white-collar crime
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But white-collar crime seems to be the new image of the law profession.
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Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
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Edwin Sutherland's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Crime is a complex social problem with no single cause or solution.
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Compared to most cities, Cedar Rapids has very little crime .
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He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for rape and other sexual crimes against women.
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Increasing the number of patrol cars on the street has not had any effect on the level of serious crime .
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Investigators believe that the crime was committed at around 7.30 p.m.
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Not surprisingly, the police say that 50% of serious crimes are drug-related.
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Reynolds became involved in petty crime at a very young age.
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The demonstrators called on the governor to make solving the crime a priority.
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the growing problem of crime in the inner cities
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The number of crimes reported in the New York City area has decreased dramatically over the last ten years.
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Violent crime increased by 11% last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified.
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He called for making payment delinquency a felony crime in some cases.
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In his past, however, there is an unsolved crime that continues to torment him.
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The agency also recently hosted a meeting of prefectural police to coordinate investigations into crimes tied to the bad loans.
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The cops believe they have both participated in an alleged crime and wish to get one or both to give evidence.
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The police would let him use their files because he usually brought back good tips from the crime underworld.